Wisconsin native, conservative critic of everything.
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." ---G K Chesterton
"The only objective of Liberty is Life" --G K Chesterton
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions" --G K Chesterton
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

They're Gone

...The cases of ammunition that typically lined the far wall were picked
to pieces. There was a 100-round case of .50 BMG, and cases of European
shotshells suitable for small game. The .223 Remington, 5.56 NATO,
7.62×39, 7.62 NATO, and 7.62x54R had sold out long ago, along with the
bulk 9mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP.
A few pump shotguns remained along with a smattering of deer rifles,
single-shots, and longer double-barreled shotguns suitable only for trap
or skeet. Even the semi-automatic .22LR rifles like Ruger 10/22s were
gone, along with all but one BX-25 magazine

... They didn’t know when they’d be getting anything back in stock, from
magazines to rifles to pistols. Manufacturers were running full-bore,
but couldn’t come close to keeping up with market demand.It wasn’t just
the AR-15s, the AK-pattern rifles, the M1As, and the FALs that were sold
out. It really hit me when I realized that the World War-era M1 Garands
, M1 carbines, and Enfield .303s were gone, along with every last
shell. Ubiquitous Mosin-Nagants—of which every gun store always seems to
have 10-20—were gone. So was their ammo. Only a dust free space marked
their passing. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Every weapon of military utility designed within the past 100+ years was gone...

Umm. I'm not afraid of anything. I bought the ammo because I could. I intend to use it. So save your lefty wet dreams for something else. I exercise my Constitutional rights. If you don't shoot, you can't improve. As to home invasion, not worried much as I live in a decent enough area and I lock my doors. As to marching on Washington, I won't have to. If it ever gets THAT bad, Washington will come to you.

Well, the nut-job hoarders, after no change occurred when Obama took office (other than extending carry rights to national parks) assured us he was just waiting for T2 to ram through his anti-gun agenda. Should be any day now, right? If absolutely nothing happens, would you please admit that you are nothing but a nut-job hoarder?

I own guns both for hunting and protection. Many liberals do. We did NOT, however, rush out after the election to buy more because we feared the government would be swooping in shortly to confiscate all guns.

I'm surprised there was any ammunition available at all, what with the Feds buying 20 bazillion rounds for Homeland "Security" and the IRS, et al. To those who have no worries about the government moving closer to gun-confiscation mode, ask yourself why the government requires this firepower,

As for the slimeballs in the bullet business who are merrily selling their wares to Washington I am, of course, reminded of Lenin's famous dictum: "the Capitalists will compete with each other to sell us the rope we will hang them with."